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KRA Child Care Certificate Program
Timmikki Brown is 37, single, and mother to a 14-year old daughter. She had a strong work history, having been employed as an Administrative Assistant, a Lead Cook, a Home Health Aide, and a Food and Nutrition Supervisor…but was unemployed when… Continue Reading
KRA Commended for Work With Probationers
Recently, Gary Fletcher, Program Director for the three KRA/Resource One-Stop Career Centers in the Greater Richmond area, received a letter of commendation from Diane Wilkins, an Offender Workforce Development Specialist with the Chesterfield Women’s Detention & Diversion Center Programs, Department… Continue Reading
KRA Staff Engage in Long-Range Planning
Sometimes customers come to KRA with goals and objectives that, with dedication and perseverance, can be achieved within a few months. However, there are those jobseekers whose long-range aspirations can take years to realize. The following story is representative… Continue Reading
KRA Supports Partner WHRO in Pledge Drive
On April 27, 2012, Kathy Confer and Juanisha Evans, Career Agents, and Uniqua Jones, KRA customer, from the Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare (VIEW) Program volunteered their time at the Spring Pledge and Membership Drive for WHRO* Public Television… Continue Reading
First TCA Customer to Complete KRA Program
As reported previously, for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, KRA operates a Work Participation, Placement, and Support Services Program that provides comprehensive Community Work Experience and occupation-specific skills training for recipients of Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) benefits. KRA also… Continue Reading
KRA Monthly Spotlight!
Our April Spotlight! is shining brightly on Kenneth Sales, a savvy KRA Business Services Team Lead working out of the Kingstree office in the Waccamaw Region of South Carolina. Sales was a key player in a remarkable economic recovery and expansion… Continue Reading
KRA Executive Attends Leadership Maryland Retreat
On March 12, 2012, we reported that Vanessa E. Atterbeary, Esq., KRA Corporate Counsel, had been selected as one of only 52 individuals to participate in the 2012 class of Leadership Maryland, an independent, educational, non-profit organization that informs top-level… Continue Reading
KRA Whitepine – One of Virginia’s Best Kept Secrets
As part her series, 30 Ways in 30 Days – Virginia’s Community Colleges, Amanda Christopher, Public Relations Coordinator, Virginia Community College System (VCCS), spent an entire day visiting KRA’s Whitepine One-Stop Career Center operation in Richmond, and on April 12,… Continue Reading
KRA Helps Customer Turn Dream Into Reality
Lisa Linnen, who is 49 and married with no children, had worked for more than 13 years in the lumber business as an operator of a Strapper, a machine that applies bands around stacks of lumber to hold them together. However,… Continue Reading
KRA Team Helps Customer See the Light
On December 5, 2011, Ashley Smith, who is 18 and the single parent of a young son, enrolled in the KRA Employment & Training Program, Baltimore, MD, with what can only be described as an immature and uncooperative attitude. Ashley made… Continue Reading
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